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"Prosperity to the Trade of Chester." This table was surmounted with two elegant transparencies, representing the east and the north gates of the city. About five o'clock dinner was served up, to which above 200 sat down. The following is a copy of the bill of fare:

BILL OF FARE.-Sixteen tureens of turtle; 8 boiled turkies; 3 hams; 4 dishes of a-la-mode beef; 5 pigeon pies; 3 saddles of mutton; 13 plum-puddings; 6 dishes of muranade pork; 8 French pies; 4 roasted turkies; 8 dishes of rabbits; 3 legs of mutton; 4 geese; 2 fillets of veal; 10 dishes of chickens; 4 dishes of veal surprise; 3 beef-stake pies; 3 dishes of sweetbreads; 6 hares; 6 venison pasties; 8 dish es of ducks; 6 oyster patties; 6 dishes of mutton caserole ; 6 dishes of pig; 6 lemon puddings; 8 dishes of haricoed mutton; 4 neats tongues; 3 dishes of collared veal'; a round of beef.

Removes-Ten haunches of venison;

10 necks of venison.

Sweets-Thirty salvers of whips and jelly, 20 moulds of jelly, 40 moulds of blancmange, tarts, cheese-cakes, mincepies, puffs, &c. &c.

A MESSENGER SHOT!-It has been a custom to fly pigeons as conveyances of news; and Tom Belcher, who is one of the first in the fancy, being unable to attend the late fight, one of his pigeons was sent out of the ring, but it fell a prey to a cockney sportsman, in passing over Wimbledon Common. A label, with Silverthorne's name, was tied to the bird's leg.

On Tuesday morning, the 15th inst. when the men employed at the limekiln near St Catherine's, Waterford, went to their work, they found a man and a woman lying dead on the edge of its eye. The parties were soon recognized; the young man having lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the kiln, and the unhappy woman, who, we understand, was the widow of an industrious carpenter, at no great distance from it. The wretched youth was known to have been drinking at a

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late hour in the neighbourhood the preceding evening, and it is thought the parties must have found their way into the yard, at low water, through the sluice at John's Hill. Incapable of reflection, they had suffered themselves to be so much attracted by the heat of the kiln, as to seek repose on its very crown, where, rendered senseless by the mephitic vapour, they were retained till death closed their mortal career. When found, one side of the man was literally roasted.

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tion than that recorded in the follow15th.-DEAL.—A more gallant acing letter, has not been fought by a merchant ship against the enemy's privateers this war, or in any preceding The Lords of the Admiralty have, in consequence, been pleased to express to the committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, their Lordships' satisfaction at the gallantry exhibited on this occasion, and their intention to grant to each of the crew of the Cumberland, as a mark of their Lordships' favour, a protection from the impress for the space of three years.

On Sunday night the ship Cumberland, Barrett master, arrived in the Downs from Quebec, under a jury foremast and bowsprit, having pitched her bowsprit and foremast away in a heavy gale of wind off the Banks of Newfoundland. From seven till eight o'clock on Sunday morning, she was attacked by four French lugger privateers, between Dover and Folkestone, the first of which hailed to know if he wanted a pilot; Capt. B. having suspicion of her, replied in the negative. Immediately after, another privateer ordered him to lay back his mainyard; and the whole of them commenced a fire of musketry, and two of them ran alongside and boarded the Cumberland; previous to which the captain had ordered all the ship's crew into the cabin, they being armed with their boarding-pikes. As soon as about

twenty men came on board, the cap tain ordered the ship to be sheered off from the privateers, leaving the Frenchmen no good retreat, and on the ship being boarded, the privateers ceased firing in the mean time the ship's company rushed forward, and cleared the deck; the greatest part of the boarders being killed, and the remain der jumped overboard. Immediately after, another came alongside, and told the captain they would give no quarter; on hearing this, the ship's company cheered them, and they were boarded and cleared in like manner. This was repeated three times afterwards, with the like success on the part of the ship's crew, and their taking three prisoners, two of whom were wounded, and one has since died of his wounds. Immediately after this, Captain Barrett discharged three of his carronades, loaded with round and cannister shot; the first was seen to carry away the mainmast of one of the privateers, and the second carried away the bowsprit of another, and it was supposed destroyed many of the men, as they were heard to cry out, and the shots were heard to strike the vessel. They then made off, and the Cumberland proceeded for the Downs."

17th-WINDSOR.-His Majesty's health is materially improved; he is gaining daily. After dinner this day, his Majesty, attended by Drs Baillie, Heberden, and Willis, walked for more than half an hour on the north side of the terrace, during the greater part of which time his Majesty was in conversation with those gentlemen. His Majesty felt much refreshed by the air; and, upon the whole, derived much benefit from the walk. In addition to this important change, it is said his Majesty, within these three or four days, has experienced some faint glimmerings of returning sight, so that he could perceive some glasses

with drink which were given into his hands.

18th.-CORONER'S INQUEST.-An inquisition was taken yesterday on the body of Frederick Bede, who was killed in a pugilistic combat with a young man of the name of Smithers, in Newington-fields, on Monday afternoon. It appeared in evidence, that the combatants were two clerks in very respectable situations, and a quarrel arose in consequence of a dispute at cards. They retired to combat in the warmth of temper, and Bede refused to settle the dispute in any other manner. After fighting twenty-five minutes most determinedly, Smithers gave his adversary a blow under the right ear, which knocked him down, and he died in about 20 minutes. The surgeon gave it as his opinion, that death was rather occasioned by the fall than from the blow; but death having ensued in an illegal act, a verdict of Manslaughter was returned.

This being the anniversary of her Majesty's birth-day, the guns of the castle of Edinburgh were fired, and the flag displayed. The guns of the Leith battery, and the ships of war in the roads, were also fired upon the occasion. The usual birth-day assembly did not take place, on account of the indisposition of his Majesty.

On Sunday evening and Monday morning, there was a violent hurricane at Edinburgh from the west. A number of cans, slates, lamps, and trees, were blown down. The canvass roof of the show of wild beasts on the mound, was blown to pieces.

At a fox hunt, on the 8th instant, in the parish of west Kilbride, a young man fell from a place called the Three Sisters, the highest point of that èlevated and precipitous ridge, called Arneil Banks, a height of about 130 feet, to the bottom, upon a bed of small stones; and, astonishing to tell, was

taken up, not only alive, but without a broken bone, and walked a distance of about five miles the third day there. after.

There was lately found in Tyninghame Sands, near Dunbar, the body of a large wolf. There were several wounds on its head, and a cut on its neck, and, from the appearance of the body, it had not been long dead. It was immediately skinned and stuffed, and is in good preservation. The colour is light dusky yellow, black ridge down the back, and nearly white in the belly and breast. It has a sharp snout, erect ears, strong fore-parts, and a bushy tail. The length, from the snout to the tip of the tail, is six feet. The legs are shorter than usually described. It is conjectured the creature had been aboard some of the vessels lately wrecked on the coast.

On Christmas last, an unfortunate man, at Dalnamin, Inverness-shire, who had drunk whisky to excess, in consequence of a trifling bet, was carried home a corpse to his own house, where his father lay ill. The poor man was so much affected by the circumstance, that he died the same evening. A widow and family are left the destitute victims, by this act of folly and intemperance.

The general sessions of the peace for the city of Canterbury, were held on Monday at the Guildhall, when Joseph Newson, for feloniously utter ing a false and forged check, purporting to be drawn by John Browne, with intent to defraud Messrs Payler and Co. of the Canterbury Bank, of the sum of ten guineas, was found guilty; and, after a charge from the recorder, in which he pointed out to the prisoner, that, notwithstanding the recommendation to mercy by the prosecutors, to which he would give every effect, the heinousness of his offence in a commercial country could justify no hope of a pardon; the mayor, sensibly

affected, passed on him the awful sentence of death. The prisoner immediately sunk down, and was taken from the bar in a state of insensibility. He was a non-commissioned officer in the royal waggon train, and an excellent character was given him by several of his officers, and by two other respectable persons with whom he had lived as a servant. The court was uncommonly crowded, and seemed to participate in the feelings of concern for his fate exhibited by the chief magistrate.

19th.-On Tuesday night, about eight or nine o'clock, as Mr Rogers, a surgeon, of Hampstead, was passing about half-way between Ivy-house and the five-mile-stone, on the Hendonroad, he was stopped by two footpads; each of them presented a horse-pistol to his breast, and demanded his pocketbook, watch, and cash. He of course surrendered to such a formidable attack: The robbers, however, proceeded to tie his hands behind him with a tarred rope, and then took a worsted ruff off his neck and blindfolded him with it; and after rifling his pockets, inhumanly pushed him into a ditch, where he lay till he heard some persons passing, to whom he called for assistance, and they got him out.

Cooper, who escaped some time ago from York Castle, and was retaken in Hull, has again vanished. The walls of the court where he was confined are 13 yards high, with iron spikes fixed in every angle.

On the 26th ult. as Mr Hutton, contractor for supplying Dartmoor prison with butcher's meat, was returning from Tavistock-market, in the evening, having dismounted to refresh his horse at a rivulet, it being dark, the animal escaped from him, and in endeavouring to recover it, Mr Hutton missed his way, and was precipitated into an old lead shaft, upwards of 68 feet deep, but there being several feet of water in the bottom, his fall was in

some measure broken. On rising to the surface, Mr Hutton laid hold of one of the cross pieces, on which he supported himself; and he plainly heard the passengers conversing on the turnpike road; but his efforts to make known his situation proving ineffectual, he endeavoured, by means of a pair of scissars, to dig holes in the side of the pit, to facilitate his ascension, and had got within a few feet of the surface, but the earth giving way, he was again plunged into the dark abyss. He remained in this dreadful situation until the Friday following, when he was discovered by a labourer, who was passing by ropes were immediately procured, by which he was soon released from his perilous situation, and is now perfectly recovered.

In the storm on Saturday se'nnight, the Hoylake life-boat, in attempting to succour and relieve the people on board the ship Traveller, driven on shore in the Mersey, was overwhelmed by a dreadful sea, and eight out of ten of her crew were unfortunately drowned. The bodies were all found the same day, and carried to their respective homes. The deceased were all near neighbours, and lived in a small village called the Hoose, near Hoylake, in the most brotherly kindness. They had always displayed the greatest promptitude and alacrity in assisting vessels in distress. They have left large families totally unprovided for.

21st.-LEWES.The atrocious disposition which had manifested itself some time ago in the northern part of the parish of Mayersfield, on the borders of Ashdown forest, by threatening letters, and the burning of buildings and stacks, has burst out afresh with double violence; and on Thursday morning last, about one o clock, the parsonage adjoining Mayersfield churchyard, where the curate, the Rev. Mr Bingham, resided, was burnt down. Last year Mr Bingham's stables were

destroyed in like manner, and, as sup. posed, because he had endeavoured to check the disorderly conduct of some of his parishioners; but, notwithstanding the active measures of Lord Sheffield, and the rewards offered, no discovery has yet taken place. Encroachments on that part of Ashdown forest, in the Duke of Dorset's manor, have been continued in an audacious manner, supported by the most outrageous threats. If Mr Bingham had not been awake, in consequence of indisposition, he, and his wife and nine children, would undoubtedly have been smo thered, or burnt in their beds. He ha ving heard a noise, got up, went down stairs, and saw a man going from the house: he attempted to open a door, which he found obstructed by part of the furniture raised against it; he then went round to an outward door, which he had bolted within just before he went to bed, and found it broken open, and some furze faggots burning, which had been brought into the room, and the furniture placed round them. The fire was so rapid, the house being chiefly of wood, and the smoke so instantaneously great, that it was with difficulty any lives were preserved; two of the children were obliged to be thrown out of the window, and two were nearly suffocated before they were extricated; but no wearing apparel, furniture, or other property could be saved. The extreme distress of Mr Bingham's family is, for the present, in some degree relieved by the kind reception of it into different houses in the neighbourhood. Lord Sheffield soon visited the spot; and there can be no doubt, that the same public spirit and activity which have been manifested on like occasions by that noble lord, will be exerted on the present.

A small island of the Danube, called Engel, near Pichment, has exhibited the phenomenon of a floating island. In the memory of the oldest persons it

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22d.-EDINBURGH.-On Wednesday night, about ten o'clock a most brutal outrage was committed in a dancingschool, kept in the Roman Eagle Lodge of this city. A party of fellows, upwards of twenty in number, armed with bludgeons, made a forcible entrance, and, without provocation, knocked down and beat the scholars indiscriminately. Some of the young men, who had courage to offer resistance, were seriously cut and bruised.

A serjeant of the 24th light dragoons was tried on Tuesday, at the Norwich Quarter Sessions, for having received a small sum from a recruit who had enlisted, to discharge him, without acquainting his officer. The serjeant was convicted, and sentenced to receive 300 lashes, and be degraded to the ranks.

PARIS.-The Bulletin of the Allier contains the following letter, addressed, on the 14th inst., by the sub-pre fect of Gannat to the prefect of the department of the Allier.

“M. Prefect,—I know not how to give you the narration of a frightful crime, committed on the 15th ult. in the commune of Biozat. My pen seems to recoil at tracing details so horrible. A young woman, 23 years of age, has just murdered her father, her mother, her brother, and two sisters!

"On the 13th December, Amable Albert, of the commune of Biozat, a respectable man, poor and with a large family, was obliged, by the bad state of his

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affairs, to sell a small part of his property. His daughter, Madelaine Albert, of a violent character, of suspected morals, and unfortunately accustomed to abuse her falanguage the most violent on account of ther and mother, reproached her father in this sale, and ended by imperiously demanding a part of the sum which he had received. The father refused, mentioning to her, at the same time, the state of his affairs; she insisted, and abused him outrageously. The father, vexed and affronted at the insolence of his daughter, gave her several blows on the shoulders, ed and went to bed. A quarter of an hour and ordered her to go to bed. She obeyafter, she seized an axe, and advanced without noise towards the fire-side, where her father, mother, and three brothers and sisters were warming themselves. She aimed a blow with the axe at her father's of the cries of her family, she repeated head, laid open his skull, and, in spite stroke; any one of the wounds would have her blows. He was killed by the first been sufficient to deprive this unfortunate man of life. They were so deep, that the monster must have been possessed of extraordinary strength to produce them. She then threw herself on her mother, without being softened by her praythe hatchet, and laid her at her feet. Her ers and sighs, struck her five times with two young sisters, one eleven, the other three years old, met with no greater mercy. She struck the eldest both on the head and neck, but did not kill her, because the poor creature crept under the bed. These numerous crimes did not satiate the tigress. She seized her youngest her in her arms, and threw her, alive as she sister, who held her mother's body, took was, into a well.

"Of all this family, a brother, 18 years old, survived by a kind of miracle. He was so fortunate as to creep behind a trunk, to open the door, and to make his escape, calling for assistance. Madelaine Albert added to so much atrocity the refinement of hypocrisy. She called to her brother, requested him to return, and promised to do him no harm. In a voice, the most mild and calm, she endeavoured to prevail on the boy to return to the house; but he was too much terrified, he ran away, and took shelter in the house of a man of the

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